Ellen Wall papers

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 

Ellen Wall papers 

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The Ellen Wall papers include identification papers, passes, and ration card documenting the imprisonment of the Wertheimer family from Frankfurt am Main in Theresienstadt from 1942 to 1945 and maps, name lists, poems, and reports documenting the Theresienstadt concentration camp and its survivors. Biographical materials include identification cards, work cards, vaccination cards, passes, and ration cards documenting the imprisonment of Betty, Ellen, and Max Wertheimer in Theresienstadt form 1942 to 1945. Theresienstadt materials include a name list of Theresienstadt survivors, a statistical report about those survivors, a report about the camp by Ludwig Stern, Leo Baeck’s announcement of the camp’s liberation, poems and songs written about the camp, maps of the camp, postcards depicting the town before the camp’s establishment, and ration tickets and a money order in the name of two Theresienstadt prisoners. 

The Ellen Wall papers are arranged as two series: I. Biographical materials, 1939-1945, II. Theresienstadt materials, approximately 1930s-1949 

Ellen Wall (1921-1995) was born Ellen Wertheimer in Frankfurt am Main to Max (1879-1965) and Betty (nee Stern, 1895-1971) Wertheimer. Max Wertheimer was imprisoned in Buchenwald for two weeks following Kristallnacht. On September 16, 1942, the Wertheimer family was deported to Theresienstadt, where they remained until its liberation in May 1945. They returned to Frankfurt in July and immigrated to the United States in May 1946 aboard the Marine Flasher, the first ship to sail from Europe to the United States under President Truman’s directive on Displaced Persons.